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H. F. POURE.

GROWING SAW.

No. 489,206. Patented Jan. 3, 1893.

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HENRY F. POORE, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO ELIAS C. ATKINS,OF SAME PLACE.

GROOVlNG-SAW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 489,206, dated January3, 1893.

Application led April 28, 1890. Serial No. 349,'266. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I7 HENRY FPOCEE, a citizen of the United States,residing in Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GroovingSaWs, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My said invention relates to a modification in the construction of thesaw which forms the subject-matter of my application Serial No. 330,904,whereby it is particularly adapted for cutting grooves.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof,and on which similar letters of reference indicate similar parts, Figurel. is a side elevation of a saw of said modified form, and Fig. 2. anedge View thereof.

This saw is constructed by pressing a saw plate of the proper formbetween dies so as to form corrugations therein, the corrugations beingof a depth sufficient to enable the saw to cut the width of groovedesired, and the top or highest point of each corrugation beingiiattened by the form of the die, or by grinding, to form a shortstraight surface which will cut the side wall of the groove smooth andstraight. In the drawings these flat or straight portions are indicatedby the letter of reference a, and the inclined portions connecting them,by the letter of reference a. The edge thus formed iscontinuouslytoothed and a saw thus provided which is operativethroughout its periphery.

The operation of this saw is similar to that of other wellknown groovingsaws,-the straight portions cutting the side walls of the groove, andthe inclined portions removing the wood intervening between said sides.

Having thus fully described my Said invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A grooving saw, having a continuous toothed or cutting edge composedof straight sectors lying in different planes and connected by sectorsin planes at an angle thereto, substantially as set forth.

2. A grooving saw the edge of which is continuously toothed and composedof straight and inclined sectors, substantially as set forth.

8. A grooving saw consisting of a circular plate with corrugationsrunning to the edge thereof, the top of which corrugations are fiattenedor made straight, and the edge thereof being continuously toothed,substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, atIndianapolis, Indiana, this 4th day of March, A. D. 1890.

HENRY F. PooRE.' [1.. s]

Vitnesses:

E. W. BRADFORD, JAMES A. WALSH.

